Gun Reforms Pass House, Senate, Go to Indiana Governor

Gun Reforms Pass House, Senate, Go to Indiana GovernorReviewed by Dean Weingarten on Mar 13Rating: 5.0Indiana Gun Reform Bill SB 229 passed the conference committee, the Senate 38-10, and the House 75-24, and now goes to the Governor.

By Dean Weingarten

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Arizona - -(Ammoland.com)-SB 229 passed the conference committee, the Senate 38-10, and the House 75-24, and now goes to the Governor. This was the last day the legislation could be passed, so it was down to the wire.

The substance of the bill is fairly straightforward and consists of three reforms. The first two reforms remove traps in existing law for legal gun owners. Currently, part of the law created “roaming gun free school zones” whenever school children went for an official function. Where the children went, there went the “gun free” zone. A legal gun carrier could be sitting on a bench in a zoo, minding her own business, and have children from a school field trip approach her. She then would be committing a felony, because she would possess a firearm in a “gun free” zone. The law fixes that error.

Second, people who legally have guns with them in their vehicle may legally have them when they pick up children at a school. They are not allowed to take their defensive firearms with them into the school. If they leave them in the car, even locked up, to go into the school for some reason, they have committed a felony. The law fixes that by defining “schools” as the school buildings and not the parking lots.

The last reform is about gun turn in programs, commonly called “buy backs” even though the people buying the guns never owned them in the first place. The law says that public money is not to be used for the “buy backs” and if the firearms come into the custody of a public entity, the entity must sell the guns or parts, not destroy them and waste valuable assets. This reform has been vigorously opposed in the old media.

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About Dean Weingarten;

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.